Chap·. VII. The HISTORY ojthe PuRITANs. 255 111 afier of arts; about the fame time he entered into holy orders, and be- K. Charles I. came a.diligent and frequent preacher; be was ~dmired by the ~niverfity~ for his fubtle wit, exaCt judgment, exemplary !tfe and converfatwn; and many other valuable qualities which b.e~a~ne a 1!1an of.?is funCtion. In ~he year I6I4. be proceeded doCtor of dtvtmty, atter wbtch he travelled mto Germany, and became chaplain to the princefs palatine,. daughter of k ing J anzes I. After his return to England, he was made. vtcar of Newbury, where he ga•ined a vafl: reputation by his ufeful preachmg and exemp-. lary living. His mofl: able adverfaries have confelfed; that there was nothing then extant more accurate and full, touching the arminian controverfy, than what he publifhed: and hardly any who have written upon this argument fince the publifhing Dr. Twf!fe's works, but have made an honourable mention of him. The doctor was offered the prebend of Winc.befier, and fevera! preferments in the church of England; the fiates of Friejland invited him to the profefforfhip of divinity in their univerfity of Franeker, but he refufed all. In the beginning of the civil war, he was· forced from his living-at Newbury by the cavaliers, and upon convening the afiembly of divines, was appointed by parliament their prolucutor, in. which fiation he continued to his death, which happened after a lingering– indifpofition1 about the 2oth of July I646. in the feventy-firfi year of his age. He died in very necefiitous circumfiances, having !of!: all his fobfiance by the king's foldiers, infomuch that when fame of the affembly· were deputed to viiit him in his ficknefs, they reported, that he was very jick, and in great jlraits. He waS' allowed to be a perfon of extenfive knowledge in fchool divinity; a fnbtle difputant, and withal, a modelt, humble, and religious perfon. He was buried, at the requefl: of the affembly, in the collegiate church of St. Peter's Weftminfter, near the upper end of the poor folks table, next the vefl:ry, Ju[v 24,, and was attended by the whole affemHy of divines: There his body refl:ed till the refl:oration of king Charles IT. when his bones were dug up by order. of council Sep. I 4· 166r. and thrown with feveral others, into a hole in. the church-yard of St. Margaret's, before. the back-door of the lodgings of one of the prebenderies. Towards the end of the year died the reverend:and pious Mr. Jeremiah Dtath ofMr Bra·rougbs; he was educated in Ccmrbridge, but obliged to quit the univer- ]cr. Bur– fi ty and kingdom for non-conformity in the late times. Upon his leaving_ roughs. England, he was-chofen minifter of an englijh congregation at Rotterdam, with which he continued till the year 1642. when he returned.to England,. and became prea.cher totwo of the largefl: and moft numerous cdngregations about London, vtz~ Stepney andCripplegate. He was 0ne ofthe dilfenting bre. ( thren in the affembi'Y, but was a divine of great candor, modefl:y a·nd.charity; He never gathered.a.feparate congreg;1tion,, nor accepted. of a parochialt l · - - living,,
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